Today is Columbus Day, a day when we celebrate the anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ arrival in the Americas on October 12, 1492.  Can you name the three ships Columbus led to the Americas?  Courts, public schools, many banks, and the Post Office will be closed today, so no Netflix discs for you. Congrats to Greg Ropp and everyone [...]

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If you would like your event considered for posting here on ErieBlogs.com, please send us your information using our online contact form. Make sure you check our daily News & Events for new event listings and events happening that day. For a complete list of area Halloween and Fall events, see our special coverage. This Week [...]

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The party’s over for unaccompanied teens who want to attend the 8 Great Tuesdays concerts. The Port Authority voted on Friday to not allow children under the age of 16 to attend the events without a parent or guardian. We’re guessing the 8 fights at last week’s concert was the icing on the cake for [...]

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The Erie-Western Pennsylvania Port Authority will hold a public meeting 5-7pm today at the HO Hirt Auditorium at the Erie County Blasco Memorial Library, 160 East Front St, to discuss the proposal to ban unaccompanied minors from the 8 Great Tuesday’s concert series. Maybe at the meeting someone will ask what happened to the $700,000 [...]

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The King’s Ship Ontario, aka the HMS Ontario, a British warship that sailed during the American Revolutionary War, has been found in Lake Ontario. It went down on October 31, 1780 with about 130 aboard. Included in this story in the Whig Standard by Ian Elliot is information which must be a reference to the [...]

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Zachary Dunbar of Erie arrived in San Francisco and today will begin a 2 month cross county bike ride to raise money and awareness for the John Kanzius Cancer Research Foundation. You can follow him on his travels on his blog Cycling For A Cure. (It’s about 2,600 miles from San Francisco to Erie.) The [...]

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A driver, traveling on Route 8 near Wattsburg, hauling 10,000 gallons of gas lost control of his truck. It rolled over and burst into flames. The smoke could be seen for miles.Holy cow was there a lot of smoke. I’d almost bet you could see it from almost anywhere in Erie County. A couple of [...]

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Dan Mulligan didn’t know what to expect when the US Army summoned him from his civilian life as instructor at the Institute for Intelligence Studies at Mercyhurst College to active duty in Iraq last January. He hadn’t fired a weapon since he retired from the military 15 years ago; what’s more, he was 48-years-old. He [...]

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The Pennsylvania House and Senate passed a smoking ban. Philadelphia Governor Ed Rendell said he would sign it. Hotels must have 75 percent of their rooms non-smoking. Casinos such as Presque Isle Downs and Casino in Erie must have 50 percent of their facility non-smoking. Exempted are bars with less than 20 percent food sales, [...]

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BetaJohn has tried and tried to get Erie Times News and GoErie to fix their problem with the employment classified links. The Help Wanted link was recently fixed to reflect their switch over to HotJobs but none of the links for the sub-categories work. Maybe one of the job listings is for help in their [...]

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The Erie area enjoyed another glorious day on Sunday – bright sunshine with a high of 88 degrees. About 80,000 people visited Presque Isle State Park over the weekend. The forecast today calls for a high near 90, the fifth day in a row with temps hitting the mid 80′s. The Erie Metropolitan Transit Authority [...]

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Ken Brundage has been named the new director of Gannon University’s Nash Library. Brundage will officially join the Gannon Community on Aug. 6. He will be responsible for managing the library’s day-to-day operations, as well as enhancing its future resources and technology. He has had extensive experience as the director of libraries at Mercyhurst College, [...]

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I don’t think the people of Erie realize how bad the Buffalo area got hit with snow. There are 390,000 people without power. The Erie hotels are packed with refugees from WNY and cars are streaming down I-90 for food, gas, generators and batteries. On a realated note.. There is now a severe blood shortage [...]

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The Erie Times-News repoted today that Dr Chuck Rosenthal and his brothers, Peter and James, have filed a lawsuit against former Mercyhurst College President William Garvey and Mercyhurst board of trustees chairwoman Marlene Mosco. Chuck Rosenthal was the first to publically accuse Gavey of sexually assualting him. A number of others, think the number is [...]

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The Beach Boys will be the headlining band for Celebrate Erie on Friday August 18th. The 2006-07 schedule for Gannon University’s Schuster Theatre has been announced. The list of performances is as follows: “Dining Room” by A R Gurney, Directed by Paula Barrett, Sept 28-30, Oct. 1, 5-7, 2006; “James Joyce’s The Dead” , Directed [...]

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Erie PA native Alan Baer joined the New York Philharmonic in June 2004 as Principal Tuba. He also rides a motorcycle. What else would he call his own record label but Baer Tracks Music. Baer actually straps the tuba to he back and rides. This summer he rode 2,000 miles from NYC to Vail, CO [...]

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Matthew Perez-Jefferson, aka Matthew Perez, turned himself into police on Saturday. Perez-Jefferson was wanted for the shooting death of Paul Martinson outside of the Antigua Blue late Wednesday night/ early Thursday morning. He was also wanted for missing a court date for a coccaine charge which he missed while he was hiding out. Agritourism – [...]

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The Erie LifeStar helicopter is missing and presumed crashed in a wooded area near Bradford, PA. Only the pilot, Heinz Schulz, was aboard. The chopper left Kane Community Hospital and was to refuel at Bradford Regional Airport but never made it. Life Star is a joint venture between tow hospitals in Erie, Hamot Medical Center [...]

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The City of Erie completed the layoffs of 15 police officers on Friday. The layoffs of 12 firefighters has been delayed until next Friday. The City faces a budget deficit of $7-10 million for 2006. For years the city pension plan went unfunded or underfunded. They money that was there wasn’t properly invested. The estimated [...]

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Verizon is selling their building at 150 West 10th Street. The 200 or so workers in the building will be moved to their other Erie area locations. Verizon specifically cited high property taxes for their decision. In 2005 they paid nearly $300,000 in property taxes on the building: $92,768.37 to the city, $44,712.25 to Erie [...]

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With all required permits in place the initial phase of construction of the new Presque Isle Downs, located in Summit Township, has begun. Preliminary land development and a new road to Pennbriar Drive will be the critical first steps toward construction of this exciting gaming destination. Ted Arneault, CEO of Mountaineer Gaming, called this “a [...]

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Erie County Council approved a $29.65 million bond issue. Included is $4 for improvements at Jerry Uht Park, $14 million for a public safety building, $3.7 million for the pre-release center, $1.8 million for work at the Erie County Courthouse and $3 million for for land acquisition for the Greater Erie Industrial Development Corporation (GEIDC). [...]

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The story about Mercyhurst College President Dr William (Bill) Garvey (allegedly) molesting children will just not go away. The actions of the college are just as disguesting as what Garvey was accused of doing. They tried to cover it up. They tried to hus it up. They backed Garvey up. Their public relation mess seems [...]

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